Oh my that must really sting! I'm so sorry!
I know that I improved their business during my time with them, and now they get to reap the benefits of all the templates and images and website changes and coding and everything I did for them.
How on earth has this position become "redundant?" Redundant means someone else has been doing it, doesn't it? In the US, these people would have done a great many things incorrectly, and you would be eligible for unemployment payments. I understand not wanting to be bothered though.
I'm glad to hear Jenny is alive somewhere else in the world. Bring her back here now and then! Is she still with Joey?
Redundancy in this case is basically to mean that the role is no longer required in their business. They no longer need me to do those things for them, as they will be hiring a third party externally to do those tasks.
So, my main purpose was marketing and advertising. New ownership has made changes so that it's no longer required that someone in the office does that, they're outsourcing to a company that focuses on that and paying them a monthly fee instead of someone (me) a weekly wage.
Jenny is very much still alive! Now more than ever with this added misfortune I can feed to her, haha. 😅 Joey is still by her side, tormenting her.
At least some situations never change. I'm so sorry. It sounds like it was a great fit for you. Can you get out there and find that same thing? They'll give you a great reference, no?